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ENG 225 Entire Course For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com ENG 225 Week 1 DQ 1
An Evolving Industry ENG 225 Week 1 DQ 2
Narrative and Storytelling ENG 225 Week 1
Quiz ENG 225 Week 2 DQ 1 Actors and Acting
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ENG 225 Week 1 DQ 1 An Evolving Industry For more
classes visit www.snaptutorial.com An Evolving
Industry. How are the Internet and other
technologies currently affecting the ways in
which movies are produced, distributed, and
exhibited? Are the changes having an impact on
the quality or depth of the films? Provide
specific examples as you explain your point of
view.
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ENG 225 Week 1 DQ 2 Narrative and
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difference between a films story and a films
plot. Use a specific film to illustrate your
point of view. In the film you chose, are the
events presented
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ENG 225 Week 1 Quiz For more classes
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What is the most important role of a film
critic? 2. Question What is the
most likely reason that theatrical movies have
survived competition from television and various
home video formats?
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ENG 225 Week 2 Assignment Elements of Design For
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Elements of Design. During the process of
envisioning and designing a film, the director,
production designer, and art director (in
collaboration with the cinematographer) are
concerned with several major spatial and temporal
elements.
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ENG 225 Week 2 DQ 1 Actors and Acting For more
classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Actors and
Acting. The text defines five types of actors
Impersonator, Personality, Star, Wild Card, and
Character. Come up with examples of each type of
actor (in addition to those identified in the
text) and explain in detail why you think they
fit each particular category.
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ENG 225 Week 2 DQ 2 Tools of Cinematography For
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of Cinematography. Choose any film clip from
Movieclips.com (preferably from a film with which
you are familiar). After reviewing your chosen
scene, explain how cinematography is used within
that scene. How does the cinematography inform
the setting?
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ENG 225 Week 2 Quiz For more classes
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Which special effects technique is being
used in television weather reports in which
meteorologists stand in front of moving maps? 2.
Question Which of the following is
true of the differences between film acting and
stage acting?
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ENG 225 Week 3 Assignment Final Film Critique
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Reflective Paper Draft. Review the final Paper
instructions in Week 5 of the online course or in
the Components of Course Evaluation section of
this guide. Then, visit the Ashford Writing
Center located under the Learning Resources tab
on the left navigation tool bar in your online
classroom. The outline must contain
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ENG 225 Week 3 DQ 1 Frame by Frame For more
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Frame. Choose one of the following video clips
for the discussion Psycho (1960) A Beautiful
Mind (2001) Considering one film is from 1960 and
the other produced in 2001, there are clearly
differences in what the filmmakers were able to
do. Describe the style of editing that is used in
the film clip you chose.
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ENG 225 Week 3 DQ 2 Music and Sounds capes (Ash
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m Music and Sounds capes. Using the video
clips, below, identify and describe the three
basic categories of sound in film as described in
the text. Which of the three categories is
prominent in each of the clips? How does the use
of sound inform the mood of the scene? Does it
complement or work against the scene?
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ENG 225 Week 3 Quiz For more classes
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What is the name of the process used to
create everyday sound effects in films? 2.
Question What is the correct technical
name for the music that plays in the background
of a scene while the action takes place? 3.
Question According to scholars, what is
one way the advent of talking pictures changed
the behavior of movie audiences?
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ENG 225 Week 4 DQ 1 The Cinematic Auteur For more
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Cinematic Auteurist. Much in the same way people
have favorite authors who create certain
expectations from their writing, we have the
auteurist theory in film. Explain why the
auteurist theory has become so important to film
analysis. What are some arguments against
auteurist theory?
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ENG 225 Week 4 DQ 2 Elements of Genre For more
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Genre. After watching three of the five movie
clips listed in the Multimedia section, above,
describe how they fit into a specific genre (or
subgenre) as explained in the text. What elements
of the film are characteristic of that genre? How
does it fulfill the expectations of that genre?
How does it play against these expectations?
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ENG 225 Week 4 Quiz For more classes
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Which of the following films is an
example of the classic screwball comedy? 2.
Question Which critic is best known
for opposing the auteur theory? 3.
Question What is a term for cheap, quick
westerns that were churned out in large numbers?
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ENG 225 Week 5 DQ 1 Focus on Society For more
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Society. Just as some books are preserved and
regarded as having had obvious effects on society
(such as Lolita, Lord of the Flies, and Orwells
Animal Farm and 1984), there have been a number
of films that we look back upon which have
clearly had cultural resonance, or became part of
a social dialogue were perhaps still engaged
with today (see Figure 9.1 of the text).
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ENG 225 Week 5 DQ 2 Criticism and Commentary For
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Criticism and Commentary. Reviews for movies are
readily available through newspapers, magazines,
blogs, and other print sources. Metacritic.com
provides full reviews for a multitude of movies.
Find a review for a film, preferably one that you
have seen.
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ENG 225 Week 5 Final Film Critique For more
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Final Film Critique Review the critical analysis
questions in the Conclusion and Critics
Resource section of your textbook. Write an
eight to ten page film critique (excluding the
cover and reference pages) of an American feature
film of your choosing. Use the list of critical
analysis questions provided in your textbook as a
guide while writing your paper.
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